Mr. Barry McBrien:

It is horrendous. The one caveat to this is that with other opiates we do not have as many checking procedures. With methadone, though, it is necessary to ring the methadone clinic and to confirm the dose and that the patient is actually on methadone. There are a few more steps in the process of prescribing that drug, therefore, but we are all educated professionals and graduates. We know how to use telephones and to communicate with other professionals, so I cannot see why that restriction is there.